Introduction
The world of art is a fascinating representation of genuine man’s thought with some glimpses of divine intrusion. The poetical words and artistic idea are those aspects of man’s culture which tend to excite people and let them know something more than just an ordinary things appearing in the world. Many representatives of art were the luminaries, in fact, in the world of faint colors of life along with dull imagination of something good.
Due to the outstanding persons who made some grave contributes into the world of human cultural heritage people can now share the fruits of artistic thought and overwhelming implementation of different elements to support the entire idea and strive of people to the beautiful and precious things surrounding them. This paper is dedicated to work out the philosophical and ideological background in the works of Van Gogh with the help of critique of some authors having investigated the issues of contemporary and ancient arts.
Philosophical glimpses on art
Though, the works of painters are full of passion, as a rule, because otherwise they would not be so popular both when alive or after periods of their lives. The scholars are still finding out the features in every work which make it so eminent and individually shaped for the publicity. For example, one of them, namely Jacques Maritain points out the factors which make an ordinary painting become a part of art.
He designates in poetry and painting the concept of “suprahuman agency” (Maritain 104) which makes emphasis on the gorgeous intrusion literary into the hands of an artist creating and generating in him the huge and powerful ability to present people with the masterpieces full of colors, emotions, and other aspects which make the work vivid and marvelous. He also singles out the fact that humanity is processing in its evolution due to the progress of scientific and creative thought on the whole. The men of art are inclined to follow their personal and individual style feeling a deep interest in the expressive means of their works.
Thus, some of the artists tend to strengthen public opinion on their creative work due to the artifacts which characterize their talent: pictures, texts, sculptures etc. On the other hand, many of them emphasized that very attention because of the scandalous manner of life. The paradox here applies to the fact that many of artists living in the previous centuries were, as British people say, sixpence none the richer while painting the pictures. Nowadays their works are too worthy than the authors of such works could not have even imagined.
Vincent Van Gogh
Van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was one of the outstanding artists of the mankind who followed the trend of impressionist stream in painting which was highly developed in the nineteenth century in France. In fact, he was a representative of post-impressionism. The artist was born in the Netherlands but was considered to be a Dutch painter. His creative career seems to be similar to that of Daniel Defoe, because Vincent Van Gogh began painting in the last decade of his life and produced over 2,000 various pictures mainly in somber colors and over a thousand of different sketches. (Hoeferkamp 45) The fruits of the artist are too significant and make an ordinary spectator to think over the potential of the painter.
If he had begun painting rather earlier, mankind would have shared even more works of a talented artist. As Ananda K. Coomaraswamy writes in her book: “The making of things is governed by art, the doing of things by prudence.” (Coomaraswamy 123) Actually the distinguishing approach of what a man can do and what he can make is too close to the Van Gogh’s mindset and his vision of life which seemed to him absurd somehow.
The central figure of Van Gogh’s life in terms of personal devotion and financial support as well was Theo, brother of the painter who helped and encouraged him greatly. Notwithstanding his Netherland origin with Dutch shapes the artist urged to feel the impression of other painter working in France. The most creative pert of his life the artist spent in French town Arles in the southern part of the country. There he could provide plein airs and feel free in making his works. One of his contemporaries Munch wrote once in form of review on his work “The Scream”: “I… painted the clouds like real blood. The colors were screaming’ echoes van Gogh’s sanguine comment on The Night Cafe — ‘a place where one can ruin one’s self, go mad, or commit a crime.” (Boddy-Evans 2006)
The gallery of the artist is too huge magnificent. The genre and stylistic manner of his work strictly follow the traditions of impressionists who paid much attention on the coloring factor of their works. By virtues of this implementation impressionist pictures still greatly influence on the imagination ue to the ability of a man’s memory to remind effectively information in order to provide spectators with holdfast. Some of the Van Gogh’s works are: The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night; Still Life; Vase with Twelve Sunflowers; The Red Vineyard; Portrait of Dr. Gachet and others. (Hoeferkamp 45) All of the pictures are the significant exhibit items for every well-known exhibition because of the name of their creator.
Conclusion
To sum up, the trends in art are versatile and tend the representatives of a defined stream or genre to maintain specific techniques appropriate for the purpose of better emphasis on the current reality. Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most outstanding and original artists who claimed his mastership and provided creative work in the last decade of his life. Therefore, mankind can be thankful to the artist, because “the artist works “by art and willingly” (Coomaraswamy 124) though, people can share the artistic thought of Van Gogh throughout his works. Moreover, the presence of the artist is felt due the personal analysis of his intentions while painting the pictures.
Works Cited
Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish. Christian and Oriental philosophy of art. Courier Dover Publications, 1956.
Hoeferkamp, Suzanne E. “The Shoes of Van Gogh: A Spiritual and Artistic Journey to the Ordinary.” The Christian Century. 2004.
Maritain, Jacques. Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry. Duke University Press, 1976.
Boddy-Evans, Marion. Techniques of the Masters: How to Paint Like an Expressionist. Web.